Mother orders son's death — Mythoi

Motif

Mother orders son's death.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S12.3

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Völsunga saga ch. 6–8, 40 (38), 43 (41)
Italian Novella Rotunda
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel mother.

Filed beside it

Treacherous mother marries ogre and plots against son Cruel mother kills child Cruel mother blinds son Cruel mother expels (drives away) child Cruel mother refuses children food Mother tells healthy sons to wipe soiled hands on lame son

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Queen offers son to be killed in order to spur to fight and avenge her first husband. (Cf. S12.3.)

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